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Do you want a High Performning Team

Teams are the building blocks of almost every successful organisation today. Yet research has found that "most teams suffer from a critical interpersonal skills gap that impedes their potential to achieve." 

The facts say:

  • 79% of people say their team members fail to acknowledge their weaknesses to each other
  • 55% of teams leave meetings with no collective commitment to agreed-upon decisions
  • 59% of people say their team members don't take personal responsibility to improve team performance

Fortunately, there's a solution for improving teamwork skills

The key behaviours every team needs to succeed: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability and Results.

How can you build and develop a high performing team?

DiSC offers end-to-end virtual learning experiences that have an immediate and lasting impact on the performance of people and the culture of organisations.

DiSC Profiling provides practical strategies to improve performance by:

  • Developing self-awareness 
  • Fostering effective communication 
  • Enhancing more productive relationships 
  • Tailoring coaching, mentoring, and managing 
  • Identifying how each person contributes their best 
  • Optimising team dynamics (getting team chemistry right)

What is a high performing team?

As a group, a high-performing team strives for excellence through two-way open communication, mutual trust, common goals, shared leadership, clear job roles and constructive conflict. Each team member accepts accountability for their own workload and actions.

The benefits of high-performing teams include:

  • A broad range of talents and skill sets
  • A group of innovative thinkers, each with their own ideas and suggestions to bring to the table
  • Little requirement for management input
  • Improved morale
  • Better productivity

What is DiSC?

DiSC is an acronym that stands for the four main personality profiles described in the DiSC model: (D)ominance, (i)nfluence, (S)teadiness and (C)onscientiousness.

People with D personalities tend to be confident and place an emphasis on accomplishing bottom-line results.

People with i personalities tend to be more open and place an emphasis on relationships and influencing or persuading others.

People with S personalities tend to be dependable and place the emphasis on cooperation and sincerity.

People with C personalities tend to place the emphasis on quality, accuracy, expertise, and competency.

Other uses of DiSC include:

  • Personal behaviour profiling analysis
  • Employee hiring
  • Workplace profiling
  • Team development
  • Salesforce training
  • 360-degree Leadership analysis
  • Leadership profiling and development
  • Management profiling and development
  • Conflict resolution

Jayne George - Executive Coach 

Jayne's specialist areas of expertise include:

  • DiSC Profiling
  • Organisational Development
  • Executive Coaching
  • Team Development
  • Leadership Programmes